Fantastic Anti-piracy Statement

[eliasfrost]

And if you just want to "try it out", well, you don't get to permamently try things out in your local furniture store, what makes games any different?

Well, usually you get to try the furniture before buying it. That would kind of be like a game demo, right? Well, if the maker of the furniture (Let's say the chair) would refuse to allow anyone to sit on the chair before buying it, wouldn't you also steal it to get to try it out?

No, that's not quite what I meant. Pirating a game to "try it out" is the same as taking a chair home and "try it out", and may as well keep it instead of paying for it.

A demo on the other hand, which is the kind of thing that I think you mean, is totally different. You get to try it out, yes, but you don't get to keep it if you don't like it, unlike pirated software.

And frankly, the gaming industry has been very ungenerous with demos as of late (2000 and forward).

Why did they just stop making demos out of the blue? any reason for it?

I don't know, maybe they think highly scripted semi-CGI trailers would be enough "demo" for their customers, instead of, you know, a real demo.